| RefNo | EC/1955/24 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVI, 142; A56140 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Walker, Arthur Geoffrey: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his work on
Relativity [underlined]. Theory of relative coordinates, applications to distance problems. Foundations and development of Kinematic Relativity, modification and generalisation of Milne's theory. Study of observational tests, formulation of orientation law for galaxies (giving 1st order tests).
Differential Geometry [underlined] (local and global). Structures of special Riemannian spaces, particularly harmonic and recurrent spaces (responsible for greater part of present knowledge of these). General theory of parallel distributions and associated canonical forms. Study of Riemannian spaces as fibre bundles, analysis of fibring conditions. Theory of Riemann extensions, giving correspondences between non-Riemannian and Riemannian spaces. List of 56 papers attached. |
| Proposers | From personal knowledge. E T Whittaker; W V D Hodge; W H McCrea; H H Plaskett; A C Aitken; E C Titchmarsh; Louis Rosenhead; J M Whittaker; J H C Whitehead |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6383 | Walker; Arthur Geoffrey (1909 - 2001) | 1909 - 2001 |